Where is Language?: An Anthropologist's Questions on Language, Literature and Performance

By Ruth Finnegan

Book Overview

Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in performance, in the mind or in speech?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472590937
• ISBN13: 9781472590930
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"